Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my… — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich.… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from… — William McFee Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a… — William Jones Copy Share Image
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm,… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint.… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get… — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him',… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and… — David Berg Copy Share Image
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.” quote by Tacitus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/428/tacitus-1552_brutus_the-images-of-twenty-of-the-most-illustr_3065309.jpg)
